02 May,2026 11:21 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Three sewer workers were left seriously injured after a speeding tempo rammed into them and fled the scene. The shocking hit-and-run incident happened during the early hours of Saturday, May 2, in Powai.
As per the preliminary information, the incident occurred while the workers were engaged in sewer-related work on the roadside. The tempo was being driven at high speed when it lost control and crashed into the workers, causing severe injuries.
Police have detained the contractor responsible for the workers for questioning as part of the ongoing investigation.
Further details are awaited.
A 50-year-old woman was killed and 15 members of her family were injured after a trailer truck rammed into their mini-bus on Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Palghar district earlier on Friday evening.
The accident, which took place at around 6 pm near Chinchanipada, caused a traffic jam, police said, reported PTI.
The family was traveling from Gujarat to drop off a family member at the Mumbai airport.
The bus had a flat tyre, causing it to slow down, when a speeding trailer truck coming from behind hit it, a police official said, reported PTI.
The impact left 15 passengers seriously injured, while Pushpa Lad (50) died on the spot, reported PTI.
Inspector Amar Patil of Kasa police station told PTI that the injured were rushed to Kasa sub-district hospital.
Notably, this was a second accident on the highway in a span of 12 hours. A car carrying Palghar MP Hemant Sawara collided with a dumper truck on Friday morning. The car was heading towards Gujarat when it collided with the dumper coming from the opposite direction, said an official of Naigaon police station, reported PTI.
Sawara escaped with minor bruises, but his driver suffered fractures and was taken to a private hospital for treatment.
In another incident, a container carrying cars rammed into a truck in Maharashtra's Thane district early on Tuesday, leaving both drivers with minor injuries and disrupting traffic, officials said, reported PTI.
The incident occurred at 3.16 am in Bholenath Nagar at Shilphata, they said.
The container was transporting seven cars of a company from Gujarat to Pune when its driver lost control of the wheels. As a result, it rammed into a truck moving ahead of it, Thane's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said, reported PTI.
The truck was carrying around six tonnes of paint from Mankoli in Bhiwandi to Khalapur in neighbouring Raigad district.
